ASUS Pro business motherboards provide enhanced features to smooth your IT operations, including comprehensive system protection, 24/7 stability and reliability and an improved management suite for easier customization. Known as the world's biggest and best-known motherboard brand, ASUS provides world-class after-sales service and guaranteed long-term availability to maximize your investment over the product life cycle and offers a high-quality, TCO-optimized solution for your business computing-needs.<br><br><b>ASUS Corporate Stable Model</b><br>ASUS Corporate Stable Model (CSM) is a commercial program designed to provide stable and reliable motherboards. Offering up to 36-month product lifecycle support and 6-month end-of-life notice to allow sufficient lead times for your organization to get ready for product transitions. Each purchase of an ASUS CSM motherboard comes with ASUS Control Center Express - server-grade IT management software.<br><br><b>ASUS Control Center Express</b><br>ASUS Control Center Express is a real-time IT monitoring and management tool designed for business that improves productivity and enhances security, helping prevent unauthorized access and data leaks. The intuitive dashboard enables easy, real-time hardware and software management across your organization. Purchase of a Pro motherboard entitles you to a copy of Control Center Express – a US$60<br><br><b>Optimize IT endpoint management</b><br>Designed to assist IT staff in monitoring and controlling devices within their corporate networks, and facilitate inventory checking in multiple locations remotely<br><br><b>Automate IT maintenance</b><br>Allows IT staff to schedule automatic updates of the latest BIOS, software and utilities to specific or all devices at off-peak times, enhancing system stability and IT operational flexibility<br><br><b>Securely manage all of endpoints</b><br>Securely manage endpoint configuration, portable storage access and PC software applications by enabling them to create grouping rules on individual devices<br>* ASUS Control Center Express is only available for CSM motherboards. Please consult your local sales representative for more information.<br><br><b>PCIe 4.0</b><br>This business motherboard is specially designed for 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and offer PCIe 4.0 connectivity for storage devices and graphics cards. Wide bandwidth and superfast transmission speeds empower you to create feature-rich builds that deliver optimal performance wherever it’s needed.<br><br><b>ASUS SHIELD</b><br>Enhances system security from bottom to top<br><br><b>ASUS Boot Defender</b><br>ASUS Boot Defender on ASUS Business motherboards is designed to automatically protect, detect and recover the boot environment against any intrusions and attacks.<br><br><b>ASUS Self-recovering BIOS</b><br>ASUS-exclusive BIOS protection technology automatically recovers the system BIOS with a verified backup in the event of an update failure, preventing the need to replace or reinstall hardware.<br><br><b>Trusted Platform Module(TPM)</b><br>Hardware-based security offers better data protection, enhances network security, protects digital identities and ensures platform integrity.<br><br><b>NIST SP 800-193 Compliant</b><br>ASUS Business motherboard with ASUS Boot Defender adheres to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Platform Firmware Resiliency guidelines to protect against potentially destructive attacks.<br><br><b>Certified NIST SP 800-147</b><br>ASUS Business motherboard is certified by the national computer security standards.<br><br><b>ASUS Secure Boot</b><br>ASUS business motherboard is set to check the firmware and signature of each piece of boot software.<br><br><b>ASUS Boot Defender </b><br>ASUS Boot Defender ensures your PC is secure even before you boot up the OS and offers additional protection beyond the OS environment. On start-up, it verifies the BIOS code to detect attacks or corrupted firmware. It’s designed to automatically protect and repair the compromised BIOS code to safeguard PCs from intrusions and attacks.<br><br>The ASUS Defender controller uses hardware-based Root-of-Trust (ROT) with immutable and non-bypassable boot firmware to form a chain of trust (COT) with integrity for a secure computing system.<br>* The system with ASUS Boot Defender will be automatically shut down after BIOS update via ASUS EZ Flash. Please press the power button to turn it on.<br><br>ASUS Self-recovering BIOS<br><br><b>With ASUS Self-recovering BIOS</b><br>The user simply needs to reboot the system and ASUS Self-recovering BIOS will restore the latest BIOS update.<br><br><b>ASUS RELIANT</b><br>Ensures consistent performance with the finest components and rigorous reliability testing<br><br><b>Anti-sulfur Resistors</b><br>Consider long-term reliability of commercial product, ASUS Business motherboard is equipped with anti-sulfur resistors. The resistors provide excellent resistance to sulfuration by constructed in a high grade ceramic body (aluminum oxide). With anti-sulfur resistors, ASUS Business motherboard can be operated under the harsh environments.<br><br><b>Stainless-Steel Back I/O</b><br>3X corrosion-resistance for greater durability<br>Corrosion-resistant stainless steel back I/O panels bonded with chromium oxide have a lifespan that's three times longer than ordinary panels.<br><br><b>Overvoltage Protection</b><br>World-class circuit-protecting power design<br>An exclusive circuit design with built-in voltage regulators to protect your chipset, connectivity ports, and audio codecs from damage caused by unexpected high-level voltages from unstable or inferior power supplies.<br><br>ESD Guards<br><b>Electrostatic discharge protection</b><br>ASUS ESD Guards prevent damage from electrostatic discharge, up to +/- 10kV for air discharge and +/-15kV for contact discharge, arranged in an active-protective-circuit design that prolongs the life of components.<br><br><b>LANGuard</b><br>Pumped-up throughput. 2.5X higher surge tolerance.<br>ASUS LANGuard is hardware-level networking protection that employs signal-coupling technology and premium anti-EMI surface-mounted capacitors ensuring a more reliable connection and better throughput, plus electrostatically guarded and surge-protected components for greater tolerance to static electricity and improved protection against surges.<br><br><b>24/7 Reliability Test</b><br>Optimized for twenty-four seven operations, the motherboard is tested under temperature up to 45°C and relative humidity up to 80% to ensure it can handle diverse temperature and humidity range of different location.<br><br><b>ASUS Commercial BIOS Kit</b><br>ASUS understands how important a customized product impacts users' mind share, experience the brand new Commercial BIOS Kit for partial BIOS update solution!<br><br><b>Remote IT Management</b><br>The onboard SMBUS header connects to a DASH LAN card* for remote IT management. DASH is a desktop and mobile architecture system hardware that allows the motherboard to be managed via the network.<br><br><b>ASUS SERVICEABILITY</b><br>Facilitate the assembly process and enable efficient troubleshooting<br><br><b>Q-LED Core</b><br>The Q-LED Core display produces light patterns by power LED during the Power-On Self-Test (POST) that can help users troubleshoot potential issues.<br><br><b>ASUS COM Debug Header</b><br>This 6-1 pin COM debug header allows for faster and more efficient motherboard troubleshooting. IT administrators can view error and debugging codes to get a better idea of initialization and recovery processes when connecting to a debug card*.<br>* Third-party debug card sold separately.<br><br><b>Box Headers</b><br>All USB headers are box style, enabling fast connector installation and preventing pin damage.<br><br><b>Fixed-position Connectors</b><br>Connector positions on ASUS Business motherboards remain consistent across product generations, protecting training, manufacturing and investments in supporting hardware.